We understand that swift access to quality research is vital in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. We also recognize that your findings have the potential to change lives, so naturally you want them to reach the widest audience possible.

Did you know that there are a range of ways you can make your work open access (OA) with Elsevier? Over the past five years, we’ve watched authors embrace the OA route in this field, leading to a 670% rise in articles published in our open access journals alone!

Why publish OA with Elsevier?

There are plenty of good reasons. We offer you:

Choice: We have full open access Biochemistry journals and subscription journals that support open access publishing. All journals also provide a green open access option. In addition, we offer you choice when it comes to the user licenses that define how readers can reuse your OA content.

Quality: All published articles are peer reviewed. Our journals have established reputations, high readership and many have strong CiteScores and Impact Factors.

Integrity: All journals are indexed by Scopus and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).

Experience: As active researchers in their fields, our journal editors bring a wealth of knowledge.

Support complying with policies. We have established a number of agreements with organizations such as the Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK.

Reach: Articles are immediately and permanently free to read and download from our publishing platform ScienceDirect. Because articles are tagged open access, the 14 million users per month can easily search, browse and set up alerts. We also support industry initiatives such as ORCID, Crossref and CHORUS

ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Published open access in Molecular Metabolism

“Molecular Metabolism is a relatively new journal but it has a good impact factor and publishes high quality studies. I particularly like the journal policy about the fast review and editorial decision process.”

Head of the Molecular Biology Department at the Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poland

Published in Biotechnology Advances

“Not everyone has subscription access, so if you publish OA, more people see your work and then hopefully cite it. Citations are often used as a research importance indicator and can decide whether you get a new grant, or even a new job.”

Chair of Biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, USA

Published open access in Redox Biology

“For me, it was wonderful that students anywhere in the world could access it. The only way to make things really stick with students is to make it easily available. Then, I noticed that lecturers at institutions were downloading the slides, so the paper has reached a new group of students through them.”

Our APC (article publishing charge) fees range between $500 and $4,150 US Dollars excluding tax, and are comparable with other publishers. Specific prices can be found on the individual journal homepages.

Did you know?

Elsevier is a founding partner of Research4Life, which provides free or low cost research to institutions in the developing world. As well as technical and communications expertise, we have contributed more than a quarter of its nearly 79,000 peer-reviewed resources - approximately 2,500 Elsevier journals and 20,000 ebooks, as well as Scopus, Mendeley and Clinical Key, a point of care database for doctors.